More Quotes by Thomas Mann
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
